All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!

Although this week’s unitasker selection is called a Pepper Prepper — which conjures up images of a sweet pepper with a sweater tied around its shoulders heading off to Phillips Academy — I’m renaming it the Pepper Screw. It’s like a corkscrew, but it’s just for removing the tops and bellies of sweet peppers:

I sincerely don’t understand how screwing something around the top of a pepper is somehow easier than using a knife and just cutting out the center:

And, if you want to stuff peppers, all you have to do is cut off the top and then grab the innards with your hand and pull them out. It takes mere seconds.

Oh, Pepper Screw, you are one really odd unitasker that looks much more difficult to use than a knife. Thanks to reader Extra for bringing this unitasker to our attention.

I’m surprised at the positive reviews on this. One said “It makes a long, boring task a bit quicker.” Really? Removing the insides of a pepper is long and boring? I guess I just don’t use enough whole peppers…

Oh, but it’s NOT a unitasker. According to the description, it works great on tomatoes too. 🙂

Until I linked to the Amazon page and read the description more slowly, I thought the orange thing in the illustration was maybe a container for the pepper being gutted. That the horizontal pieces below and beside it were some sort of stabilizer, like buttresses on a cathedral, that allowed you to keep your hand(s) free. That you put your pepper in the container (assuming the pepper was the right size) and then performed the necessary surgery. But lo! It is a real pepper! Along with a few skinny slices! Oh, dear! Less for me to laugh at!